The Illinois legislative program is the result of work by the SpanishSpeaking Peo.ples Study Commission. The legislative measures touch on housing. employment. education. and health and welfare services. They are being prepared for both the migrant field worker and the factory worker. For example. the commission. headed by Rep. Arthur A. Telser (RChicago) will .seek legislation providing unemployment compensation for migrant workers between jobs during the picking season. Among other goals are offering certain intelligence tests in Spanish and tests for the drivers license in Spanish. The Census Bureau tended to confirm the widespread notion that in general the Spanishspeaking have replaced blacks at the bottom of the economic ladder. There are -of course wide differences. Cubans tend to be refugees from Castro and therefore middle class. older. better educated and more prosperous than Mexicans. Puerto Ricans and South Americans. Yet overall.
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Spanish-speaking people have replaced blacks at the bottom of the economic ladder.